Mitt Romney, the Mormon Story

Of all of the biographies of the de facto GOP nominee that come out this year, we can be pretty certain Ronald Scott's “Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics,” is the only one that will have as its epigraph a letter from Mormon Apostle Parley Pratt to Queen Victoria. In the letter, dated 1841, Pratt informsthe queen that the “world in which we live is on the eve of a revolution.” This was a revolution “on which the fate of all nations” was suspended and “heaven itself has waited with longing expectation for its consummation.”